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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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QUADRIVIUM

The more advancaed program in medieval liberal arts education (beyond the trivium), namely arithmetic, geometry, astonomy, and music. (Etym. Latin quatuor, four + viae, ways: quadrivium.)

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Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. Each person on earth has a guardian angel who watches over him and helps him to attain his salvation. It has been a common theological opinion that this angelical guardianship begins at the moment of birth; prior to this, the child would…

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